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UNITED dramas Parent @rrrcaa GUSTAVE KINNER, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

PANTALOONS PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,783, dated January 26, 1886. Application filed September '7, 1885. Serial No. 176,396. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GUSTAVE KINNER, a subject of William, Emperor of Germany, residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Attachments for Protecting Pants and Preventing them from \Vearing, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an attachment for pants, to prevent the legs from getting wet around the heels and the rapid wearing of the same by the friction against the shoe when they are wet and muddy.

By using my attachment the pants legs at bottom are kept dry and clean, and last much longer. As 110w, it is where the pants come in contact with the heel of the shoe and the ground that they wear out first.

The attachment is simple and easily constructed, as well as cheaply,and may be used for various other purposes. It may be made of metal or any other suitable material.

In the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, my invention is set forth.

In the drawing, which shows the construction of my attachment, F is a band, of metal or other suitable material, provided with the terminal hooks A A, and an opening, 13, at the central part midway between the ends thereof, through which passes obliquely another and narrower band, which is lettered I and I in the drawirg, and acts as a spring.- The band F is bent over at each end, so as to meet the spring I and I, one end being bent in one direction, forming the hook A, and the other end being bent in the opposite direction, making the catch A. so formed that it meets the hooks A and A, and when pressed against the band or plate F it will spring back to the position shown in the drawing.

As may be seen, this attachment may be used for connecting harness, as a link in a chain, and for various other purposes in the nature of a connective; but the use to which I propose to apply it, especially,is for the purpose of preventing the bottoms of pantaloons from getting wet on days when there is rain or snow. I accomplish it by pressing the spring I and drawing the hook A over the top of the back part of the shoe, to which it is held by the spring I, and by drawing the bottom of the pantaloons leg into the book A, where it is held by the spring I.

The attachment orpantaloons-protector may be made of any desirable size and hold the pantaloons as high from the ground as wanted.

I prefer to make my pantaloons protector as set forth in the drawing, rather than to do away with the spring I and I and turn the hook A in the opposite direction to that shown in drawing, as I could do, and by having the hook A come to a sharp point like a pin, avoid using the shoe, for in that case the hook A, provided with a pinpoint might be passed through the leg of the pantaloons from the inside at any height desired, and the bottom of the pantaloons-leg be held by the hook A, it being made for that purpose. The book A being broad, it is calculated to hold the pantaloons-leg better and cause less wrinkles in the cloth than a simple bent wire or pin.

To make my attachment more solid, the spring and band may be soldered at their point of intersection, or where the spring passes through the opening in the band F.

B is the opening through which the spring passes, and may be made of any size desired for the purpose.

Having fully described my invention, what I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patout is The spring I and I is I In a pants-supporter, the band F, provided with the opening B and with the terminal hooks A A, and the spring I I, constructed substantially as above set forth and deseribed.

G. KINNER.

Witnesses:

HELMAS ROMAINE, JOHN WALLS. 

